Berthold of Schweinfurt

Berthold von Schweinfurt (also Bertoldus; * unknown; † January 15 980 ) 941 is mentioned as Count, 960 as Count in Radenzgau. 961 he is Graf at the bottom Naab, 973 Count popularly field. 976 he is - called Margrave, 980 as Count of eastern Franc - after successful battles against Bohemia and Hungary.

Berthold's origin is controversial. The most likely theory is that he was a son (or grandson) of Arnulf of evil, Duke of Bavaria. He would come from the Luitpold Ingern. Another theory sees him as the son of Arnulf's brother Berthold of Bavaria. Yet another theory puts him into the family of Popp Onen. What is certain is that his brother, or nephew Luitpold I, Margrave of Austria, was the progenitor of the younger Babenberg.

The 941 mentioned Comes Bertoldus got by King Otto I entrusted the captive Count Lothar of Walbeck to guard, who had been pardoned after a year and was released. Then Lothar gave him his daughter Eilika (also called Eila or Eiliswintha; † August 19, 1015 ) to the woman on whose behalf later the cathedral of Schweinfurt was built, and in which it is buried.

In the year 964 he was again entrusted to a prisoner Otto, this time King Berengar II of Italy, he should guard in Bamberg.

In the year 973 Berthold involved in the suppression of the uprising of the Bavarian duke Henry the Wrangler. Berthold and Eilika had at least two children:

• Henry of Schweinfurt, † September 18, 1017, succeeded his father in the,
• Bucco, 1003 testifies.

In addition, Eilika, 1010 abbess of the monastery Niedernburg in Passau, suspected as the daughter of the couple.

• Gaugraf
• Margrave
• Schweinfurt
• German
• Born in the 9th or 10th century
• Died 980
• Man